Yeah, the only person I can imagine wearing this in a funny way would be a school bus driver, but I actually don’t think they want to make the kids feel even less comfortable about crying.

You should crosspost this to !science_memes@mander.xyz

I get paid 1,75x the rate and a much better percentage of people tip and/or are super nice on Sundays (a bunch of regulars also pay in bills and 1/2€ coins everywhere all week, then pay on Sundays by dumping out their change purses and leaving the rest as a tip. Unless they’ve gotten annoyed at pushback in the past, I always check that they’re sure after I count it, because it’s often a lot of money), so it’s almost worth it, lol. I used to like it a lot, because I’m accustomed to working Sundays and holidays in the US service industry and people were much more appreciative. Now that I’m teaching German M-F, I cherish having a Ruhetag a lot more.

Luckily, I’ve got the whole weekend off right now after working 9-21:30 yesterday and my husband is going shopping after his shift at a grocery store, so I’m going to relax today and draft a test for the first time tomorrow :)

This one seems different from the others, in that it’s implying dishonesty instead of just creativity; disdain for pointless rules of propriety that serve as a class filter to keep academia inaccessible to people who didn’t grow up knowing the expectations; inadequate advisement; and/or flakiness.

I figured it out though! The professor is writing to her Faith in Humanity after dealing with various students in different situations, not one glorious, completely oblivious to social cues, Mr. Magoo-ass shitbird.

It’s not my post, but the US is broadly considered a democracy by today’s standards when it absolutely shouldn’t be. Not even only governments, the amount of Schadenfreude I hear about Americans who are “getting what they voted for” is wild.

I only mentioned felony disenfranchisement, because it’s simple and I didn’t want to write a book, but there are a lot of ways in which the system disenfranchises poor, non white, queer, urban, and disabled voters.

German democracy isn’t perfect, but I got a special letter for service and medical industry employees about how to vote because I work at a Sonntagsbäckerei and they wanted to make sure it wouldn’t pass me by. It’s a college town with a teaching hospital, so medical and service industry employees are probably 25% of the town, so I guess it makes sense.

Then, my bakery closed early on Election Day! That’s obviously a private company, but it’s a huge contrast to the restaurant I used to work at in the US, where my old boss didn’t let me switch shifts for Election Day to coordinate with my university schedule because it was only a local election, and I was “too young to care about the school board.” Also a private company, but I complained and tried to raise a fuss, but got nowhere. If I made a credible accusation of voter suppression in Germany, every experience I’ve had here suggests they’d at least investigate it.

You can now, it costs a few grand

So does your country, today, consider the US a democracy? I’ve got a strong suspicion that it’s the country I live in, and unfortunately yes, they do.

I get annoyed about American defaultism too, but how many times does the post need to mention the US for it to be allowed to complain about American problems?

Democracy by today’s standards.

In the US, that means not allowing felons to vote. Limited opportunity, selective policing, and biased punishments lead to a huge disparity between felony convictions by race.

Does that sound like democracy that you want? The Ancient Greeks also had democracy that wouldn’t pass the sniff test because they didn’t let women vote.

Prewipe, that’s about right.

I get enough fiber

Exactly! And then she’d condescendingly explain that crying really doesn’t help her headache, so unless you have another puppy or aren’t especially attached to your younger sister…

She does look good (unless you mean morally). Just very scary polished, like someone who works for someone rich enough to bury you alive.

To be fair, I guess she does.

I’m perplexed at how someone who looks so fucking evil was ever hiding it. It’s not the skunk stripe, per se, but it’s the whole vibe.

She looks like the person who comes to tell you that your body’s been selected for secondment (getting get outed, basically) by the musk type character, and not to worry, your family will be given a generous settlement and now your body can be used to do great things.

I’d sell ice-pops at a funeral concessions stand, that’s for sure.

You can remember it, because the T separates the Es into discrete entities

The ones encouraging ineffective but irritating eco vandalism- it doesn’t do much to help, but makes others less likely to support them, further splintering the non-evil voting bloc

Yeah, it’s luck all the way down.

*bajorans, but yes

They originally appeared like that so as to be immediately identifiable as Odos people, then just stuck with the forms solids had seen them in so as to be recognized- whenever they didn’t want to be recognized, they weren’t.

This might have been hilarious

Pretty close- maybe I should have mentioned being bitter about our anachronistic coal usage in the spoiler. I didn’t include BSW, so it goes afd, cdu, spd, greens, die linke, and volt, though I would also put BSW in that category with the greens

Yes, lots of people let life pass them by. I’m in full agreement with that, but a lot of people do not have the flexibility to do much about their situations. It’s not a lack of agency, it’s a lack of freedom and safety to make changes.

I understand your point to be this: everyone could have had a good life if they had correctly applied themselves and gone after what they wanted, so people who haven’t meaningfully changed their circumstances and are unhappy with their lives are themselves to blame. My point is this: many people could enjoy their lives more if they took control of their own choices, but not everyone can. Sometimes people just get dealt a shitty hand.

Have I misunderstood your point?